Athensys - Clarity from Complexity

Digital Transformation is any programme of work to change a business, government agency or piece of infrastructure (railways, power etc.) that involves Information Technology; so pretty much any sizable programme of work. We deal with the really big complex programmes of work from $50 million to $10 billion because that is where the biggest challenges lie.

The world’s largest businesses and government agencies are spending more than ever before on Digital Transformation. Businesses have to transform or they get wiped out by new entrants and successfully transformed competitors. Governments have to transform to better-meet the increasing expectations of citizens with generally shrinking budgets.

The trouble is transformation keeps going wrong. Less than 20% of programmes succeed. On average programmes spend 45% more than was intended and end up having delivered only 44% of the returns expected. Many programmes do much more harm than good.

With big business and government spending on Digital Transformation set to top $2 trillion by 2022 this means a lot of help is needed. Without help the alternative is at best over $900 billion of wasted value for shareholders and citizens, and at worse it is organisations ceasing to be viable and losing everything.

We are going to fix this and help large organisations master Digital Transformation to allow them to survive and thrive in the post-Digital age. Whilst working on some of the UK’s largest transformation programmes we have developed techniques that are being used to reduce cost by up to 30%, curb overspending and ensure that expected returns are delivered. We have set up Athensys to provide all the support organisations need to embrace these techniques themselves. Athensys is designed to scale, we are not a consultancy, we are an education, software and cloud service provider that enables our customers to do it for themselves.

We believe that the future of Digital Transformation success lies with specialisation and being able to work with the organisations that have the resources and experience you need. We thrive with size and provide the best customer value under complexity. This means we have niched to focus on big programmes that are over $50 million in cost and involve managing one or more external suppliers to help deliver the work. We work with governmental, private and charitable organisations. We educate and serve both customers and suppliers on these large programmes.

Athensys runs education events or goes to visit prospective customers to teach them freely about our techniques for getting Digital Transformation right. We do not charge for education events as we are not a consultancy, we want to solve the problem. Get in touch with us and we will be happy to help.

After customers have been through a basic education event, we help them tailor what we do to their organisation’s needs, build the business case and reach a value-based decision on if our cloud services and techniques will pay off for their programmes.

Our education events are free. Our main offering, DeliveryBridge, provides everything needed to start taking control of Digital Transformation (coaching, training, our software platform and even an initial injection of labour) included in the price, we get you fully set up and then transition to your people running it as they become adequately trained (6-12 months later).

The time commitment for the first 6 months is 1 hour per week for the senior programme team, our services will return this time more than ten-fold; allowing your most valuable people to better spend their time elsewhere. Beyond the first 6 months we would expect to be transferring skills to your people based on your needs. We can also provide access to our partner network who deliver transformation consultancy or long-term DeliveryBridge operation as a service if this is preferred.

We can mobilise your contract in weeks and we start making a tangible difference in the first month.